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" I prefer to work with mystery, but that doesn't work well in an academic environment. They want you to analyze what you're doing, which is toxic to the creative process for people like me. "

Julia Holter

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" I've never felt at home anywhere. "

" Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation. "

" For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. "

Julia Holter

Inspired

Poetic

" The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own. "

" I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made. "

Julia Holter

See

Try

" If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky. "

Julia Holter

Paparazzi

You

" I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it. "

Julia Holter

Behind

Everything

" I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say. "

" I don't ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are. "

Julia Holter

Seen

Scary

" I think what's interesting in L.A. is that there's a lot of variety because L.A. is very spread out. I think there is a lot I don't know about, to be completely honest. It's a very mysterious town. "

" I say most of my music is very trial-and-error. "

" I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own. "

" I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class. "

" I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person. "

Julia Holter

Being

Person

" Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for. "

" You can have an Internet presence, but it doesn't mean anyone has any idea who you are or what you look like. Which is great. "

" No one recognises me on the street, ever. "

Julia Holter

Ever

Recognises

" 'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something. "

Julia Holter

Character

" Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive. "

" All I ever know is what I want to do next. "

" I often find that I like the vibe of not having technology around me. "

Julia Holter

Technology

Vibe

" I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre. "

" I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family. "

" Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want. "

" I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral. "

" I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad. "

" It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall. "

" I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem. "

" I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. "